ECE497 Project Electric Car

Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder

Team members: Junxuan Hou, Zhen Wei

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00 Installation Instructions 
00 User Instructions
00 Highlights
00 Theory of Operation
00 Work Breakdown
00 Future Work
00 Conclusions
00 Demo
00 Late
Comments: I'm looking forward to seeing this.

Score:  10/100

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Executive Summary

This project interfaces the Beaglebone with motor-based electronic mini-car. The gpio pins are used to control the motor on the car to remote it. Some additional interfaces, such as a IR sensor to control the moving direction of the car, and an analog input to control the speed of the car, are considered to be done based on the progress of the project.

Currently we have the small car which can be controlled by keyboard, or IR sensor. With the keyboard controlling, the car can go foreword and backward, make a turn to both right and left. With the IR sensor controlling, the car can keep space before the barrier in front of item.

At first, we use the H-bridge to control four motors which connect to four wheels for the car. And use the GPIO pins to control this H-bridge. And then use a analog input pin to get the signal feedback from the IR sensor.

Depending on the time, in the feature time, there are lots of works can be done for this robot car.

Packaging

Parts List:

Parts	Quantity
Robot Car Kits	1
Beaglebone	1
sharp 2d120x f IR sensor	1
L293 H-Bridge Chip	1
1N4004 Diodes	8
100 ohm Resistors	2
On/Off Switch	1

Packaging:

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  Top

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  Button

Soldering the L293 H-bridge chip, rsistors, and diodes together. And put the control board on the car.

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  Motor connection

Connect the motor to the control board.

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  IR Sensor

Glue the IR Sensor in front of the car.

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  Sensor & Switch connection

Connect both on/off switch and IR sensor to the beaglebone.

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  Wire the Beaglebone

wire eveything to the beaglebone.

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  Electric Car

Our Electric Robot Car is ready to go.

Installation Instructions

The Github Link for this project is https://github.com/weizhen1883/Electric-Car.git.

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User Instructions

1. Login to the Beaglebone and open the project folder.
2. $beagle ./ECar to run the keyboard control model.
3. $beagle ./GoForwordwithSensor to run the IR sensor control model.

At the keyboard control model

• 'w'----go forward
• 'x'----go backward
• 'a'----turn left
• 'd'----turn right
• 's'----stop

Highlights

At this time, this Electric Car can only controlled by keyboard, and run forward and backward to keep the space between item and the barrier in front of item.

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Theory of Operation

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Work Breakdown

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Future Work

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Conclusions

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Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder